Lunchtime Recital - Eri Yamamoto (Piano)

Join us every Wednesday lunchtime at Westminster Music Library for recitals by students and recent graduates of London's music schools. All concerts are free, and everyone is warmly welcomed.

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On Wednesday 13 October we are delighted to welcome pianist Eri Yamamoto, who will be presenting this show-stopping programme in preparation for her forthcoming appearance at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Weimar, Germany:

• J. S. Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 881
• J. Haydn - Sonata in Eb Major, Hob. XVI: 52
• F. Liszt - Valse oubliée No. 1 (S215)
• F. Liszt - Etudes d’exécution transcendente: Nr. 8 c-Moll “Wilde Jagd”
• R. Wagner/F. Liszt - Isoldes Liebestod from "Tristan und Isolde"
• G. Verdi/F. Liszt - Rigoletto: Paraphrase de Concert

Eri Yamamoto was born in Tokyo and, after achieving her BA and MA with highest honours at the F. Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest as a Stipendium Hungaricum scholar, she moved to London in 2017 to further her skills on the Professional Diploma course at the Royal Academy of Music. Currently in the UK on an ‘Exceptional Talent’ visa, she is also an official piano accompanist in the Strings Department of the Royal Academy of Music.

Eri has won numerous prizes and awards, including Absolute First Prize in the ‘Citta di Barletta’ (Italy), the Rosalia de Castro Special Prize and CD recording prize in the International Piano Competition ‘City of Vigo’ (Spain), Second Prize in the Putra International Piano Competition (Malaysia), First in the ‘Grand Prize Virtuoso’ International Music Competition (Salzburg and London), Silver prize in WPTA Finland, and other honours throughout Europe and Asia.

She has performed at the Chopin Birthday Festival in Warsaw, the Stipendium Hungaricum Ceremony (attended by the Hungarian Prime Minister) in Budapest, the Wiener Saal Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Suntory Hall Blue Rose Room in Tokyo, and she has played on FM Tokyo Radio, to name just few.

Eri also enjoys performing as a chamber musician, having given duo recitals with the clarinettist Richard Stolzman, and performing in a violin and piano duo on Hungarian Radio, as well as live appearances in London at Marylebone Parish Church and the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room.

She has studied under Nádor György and Orsolya Szabó and has attended prestigious masterclasses including Cyprien Katszaris , Pavel Gililov, the International Mozarteum Summer Academy and the Lake Como International Piano Academy. She currently receives expert coaching from the concert pianist Julian Jacobson.